Hey everyone, I recently worked on a fun side project - a premium-style version of the Subway Surfers game. I wanted to explore how game modding and APK customization work, mainly for learning purposes. It was interesting to see how small tweaks can improve gameplay speed, unlock features, and optimize performance on Android.
The official deadline is Oct. 14, 2025. Microsoft is not going to back down at the last minute and offer an extension. The hardware requirements aren't going to change, either. So, if you have a laptop or desktop PC that doesn't pass the compatibility checks, Microsoft will block you from upgrading through Windows Update, and they will encourage you to buy a new PC instead.
There remains no "make it work like it did before Windows 11 messed everything up" option, but the Start menu has grown for users with the screen real estate to accommodate it, and gained additional options, such as a category view to group applications. There is also integration with Phone Link via a collapsible page opened with a mobile device button next to the Search box, although European Economic Area (EEA) users will have to wait until later in 2025 to access the iOS and Android device options.
IBM is collaborating with Cockroach Labs to help mainframe users modernize business-critical applications. The two companies have signed an OEM agreement to integrate CockroachDB, the distributed relational database with PostgreSQL compatibility, into IBM's hybrid infrastructure. According to The Register, IBM aims to enable organizations to use cloud-native databases on systems such as LinuxONE, Linux on Z, Power Systems, and Red Hat OpenShift.
Zed, built in Rust, has a small market share but a lot of influence on open standard development. JetBrains, the creator of IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm, is now joining as a co-developer and wants to integrate ACP into its IDEs. The company emphasizes that the protocol prevents vendor lock-in, allowing developers to use their preferred AI assistant within the environment of their choice.
In any enterprise application, user-provided data is often messy and incomplete. A user might sign up with a "company name," but turning that raw string into a verified domain, enriched with key technical or business contacts, is a common and challenging data engineering problem. For many development teams, this challenge often begins as a seemingly simple request from sales or marketing. It quickly evolves from a one-off task into a recurring source of technical debt.
Wayland is the Linux graphical protocol for now and the future. At this point, there is no going back (nor is there a reason to, because Wayland is a vast improvement over X11). The migration from X11 to Wayland has been long and (at times) challenging. Fortunately, it looks as though the dust has settled and Wayland has the full support of most desktops and distributions.
One of Python's most persistent limitations is how unnecessarily difficult it is to take a Python program and give it to another user as a self-contained click-to-run package. The design of the Python language makes this surprisingly difficult to do. Traditionally, the only reliable way to make it happen was to bundle the entire Python runtime, and all your program's dependencies, along with the program.
The plan, which Microsoft refers to as "reimagining archiving," involves automatically moving the oldest items from a user's primary mailbox to an archive location when the mailbox approaches 90 percent of its quota. Administrators will be interested to learn that the function will also temporarily override the current archiving policy and cannot be turned off if archiving is already enabled.
A direct upgrade to Azure DevOps Server RC is supported from any version of Team Foundation Server, including Team Foundation Server 2015 and newer. Note: October 14, 2025, is the date for the end of Extended Support for Team Foundation Server 2015. This means that it will no longer receive security updates or technical support. We strongly recommend that customers upgrade to the latest versions of Azure DevOps as they are released.
RedoxOS is a special kind of Linux distribution that uses a microkernel and is written in Rust. For those who don't know, Rust is a programming language well-known for being fast. I've been using System76's COSMIC desktop environment, which is also written in Rust and is lightning fast. Imagine an entire OS written in that same language. That's what RedoxOS is, and it's zippy. This is, hands down, the fastest operating system that I've ever used.
Uber engineers have updated the CacheFront architecture to serve over 150 million reads per second while ensuring stronger consistency. The update addresses stale reads in latency-sensitive services and supports growing demand by introducing a new write-through consistency protocol, closer coordination with Docstore, and improvements to Uber's Flux streaming system. In the earlier CacheFront design, a high throughput of 40 million reads per second was achieved by deduplicating requests and caching frequently accessed keys close to application services.
Air is built on FastAPI, so we could use [pyinstrument's instructions](https://pyinstrument.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide.html#profile-a-web-request-in-fastapi) modified. However, because profilers reveal a LOT of internal data, in our example we actively use an environment variable. You will need both `air` and `pyinstrument` to get this working: ```sh # preferred uv add "air[standard]" pyinstrument # old school pip install "air[standard]" pyinstrument ```
The actual reason wrapt was created was to be able to perform monkey patching of Python code. One key aspect of being able to monkey patch Python code is to be able to have the ability to wrap target objects in Python with a wrapper which acts as a transparent object proxy for the original object. By extending the object proxy type, one can then intercept access to the target object to perform specific actions.
You ask Claude Code or Cursor about a shadcn/ui component, and it'll confidently spit out props that don't exist, dust off patterns from 2023, or just flat-out make things up. Most of the time, this comes down to version changes. shadcn/ui keeps evolving, new props, updated requirements, and agents often lean on older docs or outdated patterns. Other times, it's simply the AI guessing.
When it comes to software, we like to pretend that quality is a number. Dashboards stand in for judgment, A/B tests stand in for taste, and leaders try to will excellence into existence with reviews and mandates. But in today's software market, confusing a KPI with quality isn't just naive; it's fatal. Consumers' attention spans are short, but their expectations are higher than ever; if your product fails to solve a real problem in an elegant way, you don't get a second chance.
I'll pick a few, simple, perfectly ordinary inputs at random, and work out what I think the output should be. This is a pretty trivial problem so I'm expecting that all the implementations will match my output. [narrator: He is is expecting no such thing] I'm also expecting that, even if for some reason I've made a mistake, all the implementations will at least match each other. [narrator: More lies] They've all been proved correct, right?
Until now, Jules - Google's asynchronous coding agent - was only accessible via its website and GitHub. On Thursday, the company introduced Jules Tools, a command-line interface that brings Jules directly into the developer's terminal. The CLI lets developers interact with the agent using commands, streamlining workflows by eliminating the need to switch between the web interface and GitHub. It allows them to stay within their environment while delegating coding tasks and validating results.
Imagine being able to take any live website and instantly transform it into clean, editable code - ready for you to experiment with or build upon. No manual recreations and no starting from scratch. Just paste a link, and watch the site turn into a working codebase in seconds. Sounds like magic, right? But we actually have a solution for this on the market, and it's called Anima Web To Code.
Affinity was purchased by Canva (an online creative publishing tool) in May 2024, and so far there haven't been any major changes to the software's model. Up until this week, you could still buy a one-off subscription, and the tools remain as powerful as ever. Does this move mean that the acquisition has led to something different altogether for one of our top graphic design software picks?
